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What are the common linguistic features of top-rated romance novels? The open vocabulary method was performed on 703 romance novels to determine what words were commonly used in the highest… Click to show full abstract
What are the common linguistic features of top-rated romance novels? The open vocabulary method was performed on 703 romance novels to determine what words were commonly used in the highest rated romance novels. Results revealed that the highest rated novels contained words related to arousal, sexual/primal prowess, and sexual communication. Our research team discusses the ability for words to capture psychological underpinnings related to readers and directions for future research.
Keywords:
romance novels;
romance;
language romance;
open vocabulary;
highest rated
Journal Title: Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Year Published: 2018
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Journal Title: Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Year Published: 2018
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